New PDF release: Cape Town Then and Now

Cape city Then and now's a different visible portrait of Cape city and the Cape Peninsula, contrasting infrequent archival photos with gorgeous modern perspectives. The ebook attracts at the magnificent photographic collections of the Western Cape records, together with the paintings of Arthur Elliott, Thomas Ravenscroft and Henry Steer. those photographs painting the altering Cape city scene from the Eighties to the Nineteen Thirties – panorama, structure, shipping, activity and the march of historical past. the place attainable, the modern day pictures, which come with striking aerial panoramas, were shot from an identical destinations because the originals. specified captions clarify the diversities among the outdated and the recent perspectives, and convey out interesting continuities over the years. Cape city Then and now's a visible trip that might attract Capetonians and viewers alike.

A compelling and extraordinary chronicle of a husband, spouse, their teenage son, younger daughter, and “grand mother” on safari in rural South Africa. this can be the unforgettable memoir of the Mauro kin, swept from their day-by-day exercises in suburbia U. S. A. and thrust into the heart of event, drama and suspense in a distant nook of the darkish Continent.

Thirty writers, thirty perspectives of Durban. every piece inspires stories of the town that has formed them. With quite a lot of voices, from John van de Ruit, Glynis Horning, Ronnie Govender, Kobus Mooman, Aziz Hassim and plenty of extra, Durban in a note is a lush assortment from South Africa's usually forgotten urban.